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Rubric grades simplification and marking scheme-feedback unification for best practice in (Chemical) Engineering Laboratories
In this post, Daniel Orejon details how the Chemical Engineering Laboratory 3 (CEL3) labs team redesigned the marking and feedback process for coursework assignments, such as written reports, which can be affected by marking inconsistencies and subjectivities. Daniel is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering and presented this work as a demonstration workshop at the […]
People
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gwatmoug/people/
John Mutua John is a final-year PhD student. His main research interest centres on how spatial analysis and environmental modelling can contribute to decision making in agricultural systems. For his PhD, he will use earth observation (EO) combined with local ground truth data to estimate livestock feed composition in East Africa. These will then be […]
The Students
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/agorman2/the-students/
Students were drawn to the study of the languages, history and culture of the Middle East at Edinburgh for different reasons. One of the earliest known examples, James Anderson, studied Arabic and Persian under James Robertson in the 1760s before embarking on an administrative career in India. The three Hebrew students, John Barbour, George Purves […]
Knowledge Exchange
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/davereay/knowledge-exchange/
Dave Reay – Knowledge Transfer and Outreach (no longer updated) Conference Talks Nitrogen and Climate Change. Planetary health Conference, Edinburgh (May 2018) Climate change Mitigation and Resilience. Network Rail Leaders Conference, Keynote, Coventry (March 2018) Climate science: state-of-the-art Carbon Trust Scotland Public Sector Conference, Keynote, Glasgow Caledonian University (June 2017) Climate-smart agriculture Chinese Academy of […]
2021 Abstracts
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/astromoves/2021/07/02/2021-abstracts/
This blog post is an updated list of my presentation titles and abstracts that have been accepted for conferences or for some other public presentation, with links to recordings if they exist. 2021 has already been busy albeit virtual. Colloquium Talk at West Virginia University https://physics.wvu.edu/news-and-events/colloquium/jarita-holbrook Jarita Holbrook: The Worlds of Cultural Astronomy In […]
Cornel West Lecture 4: History Adagio
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2024/05/14/cornel-west-lecture-4-history-adagio/
Lecture Four took place on Monday 13th May at the Informatics Forum, and was chaired by Professor Lesley McAra, Assistant Principal (Community Relations) and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Below is a lecture summary, followed by a response by PhD student in English Literature Christopher Chan. You can watch the […]
Book of Emotions
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/opentoolkits/?p=3303
Have you ever been unable to express your emotions? Have you ever felt sad, lonely, angry and other emotions at the same time? 是否你曾遇到过无法表达自己情绪的时候？是否某一刻悲伤、孤独、生气等情绪同时围绕着你？ Emotions are an important part of our inner world, and the Book of Emotion is a creative project that helps you explore, express and record your inner feelings. Whether you […]
Edinburgh symposium shows anthropology can help us understand the social dynamics of COVID-19, writes Ritti Soncco
On 27 April 2020, the Students of Medical Anthropology (SoMA), a student-body subgroup of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA), held their annual Symposium virtually. This year’s symposium was entitled ‘Uncertain Futures, Uncanny Present(s)” and was divided into two sections: what the covid-19 pandemic reveals and what the covid-19 obfuscates. The call for papers […]
The many masks of a lockdown, by Krithika Srinivasan
The ways in which a ‘non-discriminatory’ virus can very quickly evolve into a disease of the poor Communicable diseases, we know, affect socio-economically disadvantaged communities disproportionately. But how do these inequalities emerge? We now have a live example in COVID-19. Until recently, the virus has been non-selective in whom it affects: it could be people […]
The science of quarantine and the social life of COVID-19, writes Aphaluck Bhatiasevi
So much has been happening in the last months. Since the WHO declared the coronavirus a global pandemic on 11th March, the situation has been rapidly evolving on a daily basis, in different parts of the world. Speaking about the social life of COVID-19, we began to hear about the virus in January, on how […]
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